TEAM Navigation, in its present practical state,owes its origin and progress to the improvementsrecently made in the Steam Engine in this country.The employment of animal power in the pro-pulsion of vessels by means of paddle-wheels is ofvery ancient date ; and the substitution of steam forthe same…
![An illustration from Ad Franc. Hotomani Franco-Galliam Antonii Matharelli ... responsio : in qua agitur de initio Regni Fra[n]ciae, successione regum, publicis negotiis, & politia, ex fide Annalium nostrorum, Germaniaeque, & aliarum gentium, Graecísque & Latinis scriptoribus. (1575)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-adfrachoto00math-173-1.webp)
![An illustration from P. Gasparis Schotti, regis curtani ... Physica curiosa, sive, Mirabilia naturæ et artis libris XII. comprehensa : quibus pleraq[ue], quæ de angelis, dæmonibus, hominibus, spectris, energumenis, monstris, portentis, animalibus, meteoris, &c. rara, arcana, curiosaq[ue] circumferuntur, ad veritatis trutinam expenduntur : variis ex historia ac philosophia petitis disquisitionibus excutiuntur, & innumeris exemplis illustrantur .. (1662)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-pgasparisschotti00scho-14-3.webp)
